between 2001 and 2010, during which time the state was involved in several lawsuits over their lethal injection protocols, state of oklahoma stopped autopsying the prisoners who they were killing. not one in the whole decade. for more than ten years, during which time the state altered its lethal injection protocol three times, the state of oklahoma has done nothing in terms of physical examination to actually see how it is working or what it is doing in the process of killing people. it s all too secret. joining us now, ziva branstetter for oklahoma s tulsa world newspaper. thank you for being with us. thanks, rachel. let me ask you an the autopsy issue. oklahoma used to do autopsy of prisoners it killed as a matter of course and then they just stopped. why did they stop? and what medical information were you able to access to do this story given that the autopsies stopped for so long?
from the tulsa world and andy coats, from the university oklahoma college of law and a former criminal defense attorney. ziva, i want to get to your report tonight about the possible falsifying of the training records of this reserve deputy. tell us what you know about that. well, this is something we started hearing, lawrence, like one day after the shooting. multiple sources called us. they were afraid to speak with their names, but they had said that the training records for deputy bates were not accurate, that he was not taking the training that he was recorded to have taken, that supervisors who expressed concern, who refused to sign off were transferred. this happened with the field training that they do with other officers. they also happened with the firearms certification training, according to our sources. today, we were able to get documents that corroborated this to the fullest and we re very
records, giving him credit for field training he never took and firearms certifications he should not have received. at least three of reserve deputy robert bates supervisors were transferred after refusing to sign off on his state-required training, multiple sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the world. robert bates is, of course, the 73 the-year-old man who, in his role as a volunteer reserve deputy, shot eric harris while he was being arrested and handcuffed by tulsa county deputies. eric harris later died at the hospital. on your stomach, now. oh, i shot him. i m sorry. he shot me, man. oh, my god. [ bleep ]. you hear me? turning now to don smollen, the attorney for the family of eric harris, ziva branstetter